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Ovid Quotes

«First appearance deceives many.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | About: Appearance | Keywords: appearance, deceives, first appearance
«Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: Hector, hectoring, Troy, valor
«No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.»
«What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: beholds
«Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.»
«Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | About: Health, Medicine | Keywords: snatches, snatching
«To be loved, be lovable.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: lovable
«Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.»
«All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.»
«As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | About: Adversity, Friendship | Keywords: The Yellow, yellow

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